Humanities Feature Bureau

If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it’s probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses,  it’s usually part of her work as an Anthropology professor at the University of Virginia.  Ten years ago, she started researching poverty in America – a topic many academics study.  But Weston chose to set her book on cross country buses so she could write about poverty through a series of real life stories.  The book is called “Traveling Light: On the Road with America’s Poor.” Reporter Jesse Dukes has more.

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